Economic Policy

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• The Mobutuization of America: How Financial Crimes Tolerated In Other Countries Have Come Home To Roost

  
  The Smirking Chimp - News And Commentary from the Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy — Authority: 640
  Congos Former Ruler Joseph Mobutu Pioneered Frauds That Wall Street Perfected. KINSHASA, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO: When Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence for these not always United States, he added the phrase "a decent respect for the opinions of mankind," as one of our national ...
  19 hours ago

• Forget the Happy Talk: A Longer, Deeper Recession May be Ahead, Financial Executives Warn

  
  The Smirking Chimp - News And Commentary from the Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy — Authority: 640
  If you google "recession easing," you will find articles all the way back to April quoting Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke as saying that the recession is easing, and that the economy is "improving modestly." Newspapers too, on their own, have written rosy-tinged stories about how things are bad but getting ...
  19 hours ago

• Quotes of the day

  
  Caveat Bettor — Authority: 139
  If you make people think theyre thinking, theyll love you; but if you really make them think, theyll hate you.--Don Marquis I only seem smart because for some reason I have always had an easy time understanding the paradoxes of monetary economics. I got Cs in French, computer science, and freshman English. -- Scott ...
  21 hours ago

• 8,000 km road construction contracts this fiscal: Montek

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Kolkata, Dec 22 (IANS) The central government will bid out 8,000 km of road construction contracts in the current fiscal, Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia said Tuesday.“In comparison, the government bid out 2,000 km of road construction contracts during the last three years,” Ahluwalia ...
  23 hours ago

• Pair held over $4m card skimming scam

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  Police in Sydney have arrested two men over an EFTPOS scam which has so far netted more than $4 million from bank accounts in Western Australia. Thousands of Western Australians have had their card details stolen at several McDonalds restaurants across Perth since October. Police allege the 31-year-old Canadian man ...
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• A nice 40 second illustration on the public option

  
  Caveat Bettor — Authority: 139
  from my good friend Soteria Trader:
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• Public sector workers still expect rise despite Alistair Darlings pay cap

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  • 57% of public sector workers think they will get a rise next year • Public sector pay increases cap of 1% to be introduced in 2011 The majority of Britains public sector workers still believe that they will receive a pay rise next year that will be the same or higher than it was this year, a new survey revealed ...
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• GM Is Now “Government Motors”

  
  Global Economic Crisis — Authority: 117
  After emerging from bankruptcy, the supposedly “new” General Motors is in reality a nationalized, government-owned automotive corpse. Courtesy of Obama economic policy, the American taxpayer now owns 62% of GM, which is increasingly (and accurately) being referred to as “Government Motors.” The United States, ...
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• The art of industry | Jonathan Glancey

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Mandelsons rejection of so-called smokestack manufacturing lacks vision. We need steel "Im unashamedly talking about the reindustrialisation of the British economy," Peter Mandelson, minister with a Stakhanovite production of portfolios, told the Guardian earlier this month, "but not by going back to the old ...
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• Taxing bankers bonuses does not breach their human rights

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Committee of MPs and peers concludes that new tax is compatible with European law When it emerged that Alistair Darling was planning to announce a tax on bankers bonuses in the pre-budget report, some figures in the City seemed to think that their human rights were about to be infringed. Bill Dodwell, the head of ...
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• Pay commission should investigate top public sector salaries, MPs say

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Compass welcomes report but says government needs to address high pay in private sector too A Top Pay Commission should be set up to investigate "fat cat" salaries in the public sector and name and shame organisations that pay too much to senior officials, a committee of MPs said today. The House of Commons public ...
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• Only a Conservative government will save Britain from a borrowing crisis, says George Osborne (BUT HOW?)

  
  thetorydiary — Authority: 637
  Image from Tory campaign stunt at Battersea Power Station . George Osborne has written for The Telegraph today and has warned that "2010 will be the year when the worlds focus shifts from the debts in our banks to the enormous debts being run up by governments". He notes that rating agencies have downgraded ...
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• QR sale plan off the rails

  
  John Quiggin — Authority: 471
  My article from last Thursday’s Fin, over the fold p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; font: 12.0px Century Schoolbook}p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; font: 12.0px Century Schoolbook; min-height: 15.0px}p.p3 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 14.0px; text-align: ...
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• The global economys decade of debt-fuelled boom and bust

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Borrowing was both the shaky foundation of global growth and the cause of its collapse It started with a bust and it ended with an even bigger bust. In between was sandwiched an unsustainable boom. Banks have been humbled. Economists have been found wanting. Geopolitical power began to shift from west to east. That ...
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• Jobcentre staff assaults rise in recession

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Abuse against jobcentre staff has increased with an average of 36 assaults a day reported over the last year, according to figures released in parliament. There were 13,378 assaults reported in 2008-09 by Jobcentre Plus staff, of which 12,188 were verbal and 896 were attempted physical assaults. There were 294 actual ...
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• Crew finds Centaur shipwreck

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  A search team has discovered the wreck of Australian wartime hospital ship Centaur. The WWII ship was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine in 1943 and sank off the south-east Queensland coast. Of the 332 people on board the AHS Centaur only 64 survived. This morning, seven days into an official search, the crew of the ...
  3 days ago

• Big Ups To Joao Paglione In Copenhagen

  
  Silenced Majority Portal — Authority: 444
  Met Joao this past September at Oktoberfest as he was there to shoot pics and he was kind enough to host us last month in Berlin for the Commemoration of the 20th Anniversary of the Berlin Wall. Which was incredibly...
  4 days ago

• Then the Financial Tsunami Hit…

  
  The Smirking Chimp - News And Commentary from the Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy — Authority: 640
  A reader calling himself Colonelgirdle mentioned in a recent comment that he had lost his small business and his livelihood when refused credit by a bank which used its bail-out money to buy another bank. I asked him if he could expand on his brief comment, and he has kindly done so: For three years I owned and ...
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• Who needs casino bankers? | Stephanie Blankenburg

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  If the bonus tax sends a few traders and investment bankers abroad, so what? We must take power back from the risk-takers Andy Haldanes comments on the BBC World Service in defence of the bonus supertax on banks are important, not because the supertax will do much to get us out of the worst economic crisis for a ...
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• UK public borrowing soars to new high

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Government borrowing swelled to £20.3bn last month, taking Britains net debt to 60.2% of GDP, official figures show Britains budget deficit ballooned to a record £20bn for the month of November alone, taking the countrys net debt to 60.2% of GDP, the highest figure in the post-war period. Last week Alistair ...
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